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Philosophical Principles Of Natural Religion, fol. 29

Machine transcription. Not an edition. Errors are expected: about 8% character error rate on Latin and French lines, higher on German. Mean line confidence on this page: 0.85.

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Philosophical Principles Of Natural Religion, fol. 29. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/797370323:0187?run=74